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Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros — Wicked City
Nehemiah Cisneros

Wicked City

2024

Wicked City pulls viewers into a densely populated dreamscape where figuration and biomorphic abstraction collide across a monumental canvas stretching nearly eight feet tall and over seven and a half feet wide. Nehemiah Cisneros constructs a world that is simultaneously carnivalesque and unsettling, populating the picture plane with writhing, hybridized forms that blur the boundary between human bodies and organic abstraction. The sheer scale of the work is not incidental. It envelops the viewer, demanding full physical engagement and refusing the comfortable distance that a smaller composition might allow. Executed in acrylic with confident, layered mark-making, the painting rewards prolonged looking, revealing passages of delicate humor embedded within scenes of social and erotic tension. Cisneros, born in 1987, has developed a visual language that draws on Surrealist precedent while rooting itself firmly in a contemporary American vernacular. Wicked City functions as something closer to a psychic panorama than a conventional narrative painting, distilling anxieties, desires, and social contradictions into a single, feverish composition. The title itself carries weight, evoking urban mythology, moral complexity, and the seductive danger of collective life. The work arrived from a Los Angeles collection, a provenance that feels fitting given how deeply the painting breathes the atmosphere of that city's contradictions. For collectors interested in acquiring significant figurative work from a rising voice in contemporary painting, Wicked City represents a compelling opportunity. The painting is signed and dated verso, confirming authenticity, and is offered unframed, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation. Works of this ambition and physical presence are increasingly rare in the current market, and Cisneros is a painter whose cultural and critical profile continues to grow.

Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Nehemiah Cisneros, Wicked City, 2024

Wicked City pulls viewers into a densely populated dreamscape where figuration and biomorphic abstraction collide across a monumental canvas stretching nearly eight feet tall and over seven and a half feet wide. Nehemiah Cisneros constructs a world that is simultaneously carnivalesque and unsettling, populating the picture plane with writhing, hybridized forms that blur the boundary between human bodies and organic abstraction. The sheer scale of the work is not incidental. It envelops the viewer, demanding full physical engagement and refusing the comfortable distance that a smaller composition might allow. Executed in acrylic with confident, layered mark-making, the painting rewards prolonged looking, revealing passages of delicate humor embedded within scenes of social and erotic tension. Cisneros, born in 1987, has developed a visual language that draws on Surrealist precedent while rooting itself firmly in a contemporary American vernacular. Wicked City functions as something closer to a psychic panorama than a conventional narrative painting, distilling anxieties, desires, and social contradictions into a single, feverish composition. The title itself carries weight, evoking urban mythology, moral complexity, and the seductive danger of collective life. The work arrived from a Los Angeles collection, a provenance that feels fitting given how deeply the painting breathes the atmosphere of that city's contradictions. For collectors interested in acquiring significant figurative work from a rising voice in contemporary painting, Wicked City represents a compelling opportunity. The painting is signed and dated verso, confirming authenticity, and is offered unframed, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation. Works of this ambition and physical presence are increasingly rare in the current market, and Cisneros is a painter whose cultural and critical profile continues to grow.

Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions
overall: 198.1 x 241.3 x 3.8 cm
Year
2024
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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